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Every mile tells a story; every datapoint tells the tale
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02-01-2025 02:57PM#1
A walking cliché enters the bar..
Mid 30s unfit dad of three with a couple of lbs to shift having hit my heaviest ever this year. In a previous live I was quite sporty however starting out from absolute scratch looking to looking to put a story to the data sets intended to use to hopefully get me to become a runner. Coming from a sports analyst background looking to nerd out on every Garmin metric to track and monitor progress before hopefully getting to a point where I can start discussing races etc.
My running journey began two weeks ago just to avoid the new years resolution pitfalls, plan was simple 20 minutes a day trying to keep heart rate in the aerobic zones and establish a habit of running
Training is being measured in line with recovery to ensure consistency (Day 1 Sleep data not there due to not having the tracker)
Biomechanically currently like bambi on ice regarding form. Hopefully this will improve with training and fitness
Tracking a number of metrics and will be using them to hopefully build out performance based modelling while also recruiting AI machine learning as an assistant coach to hopefully gain insights to see whether can optimize performance data and its application to be useful to running
Initial Chat GPT impressions of training (2 week data set)
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Week 2
Christmas week so a few days off as we were having a few days with family and one I consciously knew was coming. Part of the reason for getting started pre Christmas was not to see post holidays as absolution.
The plan was to increase runs by 5 min per run as will be the plan for the forseeable. I have been sedentary for so long that the simple task of getting out easy is enough of a stimulus for now keeping the HR down as much as possible (although fitness proving to be a bit of a block with getting down to truly aerobic easy without compromising form so based off low time and no other stimulus I am getting away with moderate effort running, realistically this will hopefully change in a couple weeks
Sleep
The few days missed were probably no harm given the lack of sleep. This was to hopefully draw a line under the year and plough on with a consistent 2025 building back to being a runner
Cadence
No real change here still ranging between 155 and 157. Plan to bring in strides and drills to address this in a few weeks to hopefully bring up to the 160 range. Small change but should be enough based on previous data to get me to a low injury risk high performance level
Training Load
Given I am running base miles at the moment I think this metric could be beneficial for consistency in monitoring health and motivation on a cumulative level rather than day to day.
While there was a dip, when broke down on a daily basis it represent 10 point per day increase on days of exercise. This roughly comes in at 10-15% increase in line with rule of thumb guidelines.1 -
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